all the thousand heart-delicacies of those whose early years have been watched over by woman's love.* Determined, and inflexible in his determination when he feels it to be right, he is ready to listen to every contrary advice; prompt as lightning in resolve, he is patient with others to excess; severe beyond measure for himself, he is tolerant of every foreign imperfection; he is gentle and humane as another Sydney, and of elegant tastes, like him; gay, witty as a courtier of the time of Louis XV.,† meditation renders him grave even to sadness; true to such a degree, that you may say, without metaphor, that he is truth incarnate, there is in him a native penetration

* Jellacic, during his first early youth, until he entered the Institution of the Theresianum, in Vienna, was educated by his mother, by all accounts a most distinguished person.

† It would be endless to recount all the social charms and advantages of the Ban, and all his thousand traits d'esprit and witty compositions; perhaps the most famous piece of satirical and convivial poetry extant in Austria is his famous "Garnisons Lied," which has become proverbial throughout the army. As a proof of his gentle nature, you should hear those who were around him at the time tell the history of a spy, who was taken and convicted (during the siege of Vienna), and by one accord condemned to death. The Ban, when he saw he was alone of his opinion, gave way, and said reluctantly, "He must be shot." Then, passing his hand once or twice over his forehead, he at length, delighted at his own invention, said: "Such a rascal is not worthy to die a soldier's death, it is a disgrace to honest powder and balls. Let him go-a miserable wretch!" and so he was "Let go!"

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(the Slavonic instinct) that instantaneously detects falsehood in others, whilst, however, his generosity forbids him to believe that which his reason avers: here, perhaps, is the only explanation of the phrase, "He is too good."

But if I do not take care, dear reader, upon the subject of the Ban, the threatened "volume" really will come upon you, malgré moi; I will, therefore, end with the words of one who knows him well:"Chivalrous in genius, heart and deed, obeying only immutable conviction; familiar with whatever is sublime; uniting every quality most rarely found together, there is, in Joseph Jellacic, besides his extraordinary and various intellectual capacities, a purity of feeling, a readiness of devotion, a beauty of soul, before which all who know him must bow down. In this disordered age, where every antique principle of honour and loyalty has been denied by miserable theorists, and the faintly resistant form of right been laid prostrate, in some places, by the mud-stained weapons of organized anarchy, let us turn gratefully to the man who has boldly revived the ideas of duty and obedience to lawful authority—the Bayard of Austria! so has he been called, and such he is. Glory be his reward, the true and loyal knight, who, in our age of prose, seems a fair line of poetry; and who, against the selfishness, the meanness, and the folly of our age, has protested by wisdom, devotion, and self-sacrifice."

Yes, glory be his reward, indeed! Glory, and the enthusiastic affection of all who know him! I never could look upon Austria's Bayard without a feeling of sadness, and without saying to myself, with a sigh, "Who will be the Jellacic of France ?"

CHAPTER XIII.

SERVIA-STRATIMIROWITCH AND KNITCHANIN.

Of all the Slavonic nations, the first to rise in arms against Hungary, and repel tyranny by force, was Servia. This country, the most eastern of the South Slavonian territory, is divided between Austria and Turkey; the former owning the Dukedom, the latter holding, as tributary to it, the independent Principality of Servia. The river Save marks the separation between the two. To the south-west, the Dukedom extends as far as Slavonia; to the northeast, it reaches as far as Transylvania; forming, as it were, a chain from the borders of the Danube to the foot of the Carpathian mountains, and constituting the principal opposition to any encroachment from the Turkish side.

The number of the Servian population is somewhere about the following:-In Syrmia, 190,000 ;

in the Bâtchka, 100,000; in the Czaikist battalions, 26,000; in the Banat, 200,000; in Dalmatia, 222,000; in Slavonia, 405,000; in Croatia, 425,000. Besides this, there are spread over Hungary, in the districts of Ofen and Arad, some 60,000, making, in all, upwards of a million and a half. Out of these, it is generally counted that about 900,000 belong to the Greek persuasion, and 700,000 to the Catholic Church.

That these populations are as civilized as might be desired, I am far from wishing to affirm; on the contrary, they are amongst the most barbarous of the Slavonic races; but they possess, in common with all the latter, an attachment to their national traditions, a loyal fidelity nothing can shake for the House of Austria, a native instinct for all that is great, generous, or heroic, and an extremely strong veneration for religion. If these populations, moreover, (be they Servians, Croatians, or what not,) are not more advanced in civilization, whose fault is it but that of the Magyars, who have governed them for the last two hundred years? Upon whom does it cast shame, that the benefits of education have been so little spread amongst these nations, and that the system of public instruction has, in common with every other